Free tool, nothing is transmittedWhen is your next DROP deadline?
California requires a registered data broker to download its deletion list at least once every 45 calendar days, and to report what it did about every request in that batch. Both clocks run from the same date. Enter the date you last downloaded and this works out the rest.
What the state has not published. California has never published an explicit date by which a broker’s first access must happen. Any such date, including the mid-September one widely quoted, is worked out from the go-live date plus the 45-day interval rather than taken from a state notice. If you have not downloaded yet, treat the date above as our reading of the regulation, not as a published deadline, and confirm it with your counsel.
Why we use 45 days and not 90. Some practitioner commentary reads the reporting window as 90 days rather than 45. We use 45 throughout, because it is the shorter of the two readings and being early costs nothing. If your counsel reads it as 90, our dates are conservative rather than wrong.
This runs in your browser and no date you enter is sent anywhere. If you want the clock watched for you instead of calculated once, that is what we do. Talk to us, or work out what a missed cycle would cost on the penalty calculator.